Night work
By: Thomas Glavinic ; translated from the German by John Brownjohn.
Contributors: Brownjohn, John.
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Die Arbeit der Nacht
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781921351648
Subjects: End of the world -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Arbeit der Nacht.
Description: The routine of daily life is such that one goes to sleep with the security that tomorrow will arrive, just as it did today.
Jonas, a young professional in contemporary Vienna, wakes up one morning to discover that he may be the last living being on earth. The highways are empty. The restaurants are empty. The animals have disappeared. The radio only emits white noise and the internet is down. No one answers his phone calls.

Night Work is a fast-paced, psychological thriller, exploring the darkness that lies deep within us all. With skilled, efficient prose, Glavinic unsettles our notion of the human condition and the artifice of civilization, peeling back the onion to reveal our greatest fears, that no one is in charge and that something unthinkable and unjust is about to occur. Night Work is a small gem of a book, unlike any other you’ve read.
Notes: First published in English in 2008 by Canongate Books, Ltd. Edinburgh.

Translated from the German.

Translation of: Arbeit der Nacht.